Jason Keeler
@chasinjason
Weather nerd, foodie, and avid gardener. Associate Professor of Meteorology at Central Michigan University. | #firstgen | he/him 🏳️🌈 | Personal account: All opinions mine.
We're a few days into this year's STORM (student training for observation research in meteorology) program up on Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan. So far, we've had beautiful and calm weather that allowed for clearly defined convergence on the island.
I'm missing #32SLS this year for a family reunion up on Prince Edward Island. Have a great conference! You can catch me at the UCAR Members Meeting and the AMS Annual Meeting instead.
It's been another great summer for fieldwork! When home, I've been working on another type of field work - growing my giant pumpkins! Introducing this year's patch of friendly (soon to be) giants: Hagrid, Sweetums, and Fezzik. Current estimated weights range from 8 to 23 pounds, but that'll change!
AQI over 400 currently in Mount Pleasant. Definitely a day to stay indoors!
Happy Caturday! 11 year old Merlin had a burst of kitten like energy playing with his favorite toy this morning.
Another successful deployment - looking forward to digging into the data!
Looking north from Zion, IL at 6:17 pm CT along the Lake Michigan shore.
CMU and UIUC teams are near the IL/WI border for our second consecutive day sampling Lake Michigan's influence on thunderstorms using a Doppler lidar, two different radiosonde systems, and a mobile mesonet. Very interesting outflow and lake-breeze frontal structures observed so far!
The spring semester is almost over, which means it's time to get ready for giant pumpkin growing! These seedlings all come from 2,000+ pound pumpkins, so they have some serious genetics in their favor! 🌱🎃
Tonight marks 5 years since the Newnan, GA EF4 tornado. I'm so thankful that the tornado missed my brother's home (by less than a mile). I'm keeping the family of the one person who passed in my thoughts.
Obligatory excited gardener post, since these are the first blooms in my yard this year!
The Gulf of St. Lawrence is beautiful from on the ground, too - in both winter and summer. Photos are from the north shore of PEI, near where my husband grew up.
Today's cold and damp weather motivated me to get my St. Patrick's Day cooking done early. Guinness beef stew and two loaves of Irish soda bread. ☘️🇮🇪
70s on Monday and freezing rain today. Yep, it's spring in the Midwest.
First 70 degree day of the year! I celebrated by wearing shorts and going for a long walk.
KH and some turbulence on this sunny first day of meteorological spring.
Merlin is stealthily trying to learn about geometry. I am surrounded by nerds.
If only I could spend a few days back home in NY! Check out the 72 hour 50th percentile snowfall forecast from WPC.
Out of curiosity, I took a quick look at CoCoRaHS snowfall data for the November - January period in Midland, MI going back to 2015. This is the snowiest start to winter for Midland during that period and the first year with Nov-Jan snowfall over 2 feet since the winter of 2019-2020.
An appropriately nerdy way for a boundary layer meteorologist to return home from #AMS2026. It was a wonderful week learning about outstanding science!
Great talks ahead in the Coastal Meteorological Processes session today, 4:30–6 pm in room 360D! Two feature MITTEN-CI data: Kyle Brooks on lake-breeze thermodynamic evolution, and Cassie Isenberger on frontal slope and misovortices. #AMS2026
Attrition in meteorology programs is high - especially in the sophomore year. What if immersive field experiences early in the major could help? I’ll be talking about STORM, a paid, week-long, post-freshman field experience and its impact on students. Tuesday at 9:45 am in room 350D at #AMS2026.
Check out poster S217 tonight from 7-9 pm in the Mesoscale Processes section of #AMSStudent2026 to see research by my students examining thermodynamic evolution of a thunderstorm outflow airmass. #AMS2026 ams.confex.com/ams/106ANNUA...
I was hoping for warmer weather at #AMS2026 but the forecast sure beats what we're expecting in Michigan!
I think this is as good as my aurora view will get tonight since cloud cover is on the increase. Michigan has had some awesome displays over the last couple of years, so I'm OK with missing some events.